Johnston House and its environs (#930 - 978)

Yesterday the mains were switched off in Johnston House, in preparation for its demolition in December. Apparently it currently contains several dead animals and evidence of squatters. It is of course condemned, and no-one is allowed entry.

930. Reflection of Johnston House in a huge puddle in the south-east car park. (13/NOV/2013)

931. Reflection of Johnston House in a huge puddle in the south-east car park. (13/NOV/2013)

932. Reflection of Johnston House in a huge puddle in the south-east car park. (13/NOV/2013)

933. Johnston House. Taken in the close. (13/NOV/2013)

934. Johnston House. Taken in the close. (13/NOV/2013)

935. Johnston House. Taken in the close. (13/NOV/2013)

936. Mini waterfalls cascade down the steps at the side of the south-east car park. (13/NOV/2013)

937. Scene viewed through the porch arch of the cleaners' lodge. (13/NOV/2013)

938. Latticework bricks hide Melville House. (13/NOV/2013)

939. Cotoneaster grows on the wall where the green is landscaped in front of Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)

940. Archibald House and the green in front of it. (13/NOV/2013)

941. A hidey-hole in the wall on the green opposite Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)

942. Scene from the close. (13/NOV/2013)

943. Johnston House through the arches that link the cottages. (13/NOV/2013)

944. The birch tree opposite Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)

945. Old stone slabs outside the cottages. (13/NOV/2013)

946. Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) bush at the front of the cottages. Alan Geale House in the background. (13/NOV/2013)

947. Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) bush at the front of the cottages. (13/NOV/2013)




948. Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) bush framing Johnston House. Alan Geale House is background left. (13/NOV/2013)

949. Johnston House, taken from the close. (13/NOV/2013)

950. Johnston House across the green in the close. Alan Geale House on the left, the OLRC background centre. (13/NOV/2013)

951. Johnston House, taken from opposite the front of Cleaners' Lodge. (13/NOV/2013)

952. Graffiti on Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

953. A lean-to on the south-west side of Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

954. The green on the south-east side of Johnston House, reflected in its windows. (13/NOV/2013)

955. Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

956. Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

957. Trees where the squirrels play, to the side of Johnston House. The OLRC is behind the trees. (13/NOV/2013)

958.  Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

959.  Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

960.  Boards over broken windows of Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

961. Graffiti on Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

962. Steps leading to the basement of Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

963.  Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

964.  Steps leading to the basement of Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

965.  Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

966.  View from the basement steps of Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

967.  Graffiti on Johnston House. (13/NOV/2013)

968. View of Alan Geale House through the trees that surround Johnston House. The winding path is on the right. (13/NOV/2013)

969. Demolition notice posted on the winding path. (13/NOV/2013)

970.  Demolition notice posted on the winding path. The OLRC is in the background. (13/NOV/2013)

971. Demolition notice, the winding path and Johnston House on the right. (13/NOV/2013)

972.  Johnston House and two of the the huge pines that shelter it. Taken from the OLRC staff car park. (13/NOV/2013)

973.  Johnston House. Taken from the OLRC staff car park. (13/NOV/2013)

974. Someone new is working from Alan Geale House. (13/NOV/2013)

975. Flat-topped mushrooms on the green in front of Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)

976. Flat-topped mushrooms on the green in front of Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)

977. Something appears to have left its claw marks in these flat-topped mushrooms on the green in front of Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)

978. A brown Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushroom on the green in front of Archibald House. (13/NOV/2013)